How to Safely Extract Google Chrome ‘Saved Autofill Addresses’ (Export Form Data)

Google Chrome is excellent at remembering your home address, phone number, and email. When you buy something online, it magically autofills the checkout form. However, if you are moving to a new password manager, or if you simply want a physical spreadsheet containing all your saved family addresses and contact information, Chrome doesn’t offer a visible “Export” button for this specific data.

While Chrome makes it easy to export passwords, your physical address data requires a different extraction method. You can safely trigger a hidden developer flag to export your entire autofill database into a clean, offline CSV spreadsheet file.

How to Safely Extract Chrome Saved Autofill Addresses

You must enable the hidden address export flag in Chrome’s experimental settings.

  1. Open the Google Chrome browser.
  2. Click inside the top URL address bar, carefully type the following exact text, and press Enter: chrome://flags
  3. You are now in the experimental developer menu. Click inside the search box and type: autofill
  4. Look for a flag explicitly labeled Enable Autofill Address Export (or similar, depending on your version).
  5. Change the drop-down menu on the right from Default to Enabled.
  6. Click the large blue Relaunch button at the bottom of the screen.
  7. Once Chrome restarts, click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner, select Settings, and click Autofill and passwords on the left.
  8. Click on Addresses and more.
  9. You will now see three tiny vertical dots next to the “Addresses” heading. Click them, and you will see a brand new Export addresses option.

Chrome will ask for your computer’s Windows or Mac login password to confirm your identity. It will then generate a Chrome Addresses.csv file. You can open this file in Excel to view a perfectly formatted database of every name, street, city, and phone number Chrome has ever saved.

Get the best tech tips delivered straight to your inbox.

Join thousands of readers mastering Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Linux.